Go to Gloria
Fashion designer Kristine Crabb has opened a boutique for her label Gloria, founded in 2021. If you haven't already, visit the delightful Chateau Gloria at 195 Ponsonby Road, to don silk dresses and explore the breadth of garments and perfumes in store. Open from Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm-6pm.
Watch Bad Sisters
Five Garvey sisters attempt to kill one horrible husband in this black comedy featuring Sharon Horgan, Eve Hewson, Sarah Greene, Anne-Marie Duff and Eva Birthistle. It's an adaptation of the Belgian series The Out-Laws, complete with flashbacks and family bickering. Available to watch on Apple TV+.
Attend a writers' festival
Don't miss your chance to sit in an audience on live-stream to former The X-Files and Californication actor turned novelist David Duchovny, this Saturday from 12.30pm-1.30pm, as part of the Auckland Writers Festival. Or join Jane Campion in person as the award-winning director talks artistic inheritances with Noelle McCarthy, this Saturday, from 6.30pm-7.30pm. For the full programme, and for tickets, visit Writersfestival.co.nz
See Reb Fountain
In Hastings this weekend? Catch the final New Zealand show of Reb Fountain's Iris tour, at the Toitoi Opera House this Saturday, August 27. Our culture writer Karl Puschmann described her new album as "a vibe. There's moments of great beauty that emerge suddenly out of dark passages to bask in the light. But it's also quick to scuttle back into the shadows lest you get too comfy in the warmth. From the moment you press play it envelops you." Tickets are available from Rebfountain.co.nz
Shop for some vintage
Antique lovers, scour through reams of clothing, fabrics, buttons, books, patterns, jewellery, hats, shoes and beyond at the Vintage Textile Fair, on this Sunday, August 28. Entry is $12. Tasman Room, Alexandra Park Raceway, from 10am-4pm. Corner Greenlane and Manukau Roads, Epsom.
Watch Nope
Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya assumes the role of California horse wrangler who finds himself facing threats from above in this sci-fi horror directed by Jordan Peele. The impressive cast also includes Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun and Barbie Ferreira. Available to watch in cinemas across the country.
Listen to Daffodils
The indie four-piece are on their nationwide tour following the release of their EP Stay The Night, and they're joined by Australian band The Lazy Eyes. Catch them at Hollywood Cinema, Auckland on Friday, August 26; and at Meow, Wellington, on Saturday, August 27.
Pick up some purrrfect art for a good cause
Are you a feline fan? Want to support the vital work of Pet Refuge? The Cat Art Auction, presented by local e-tailer Fang & Fur, gives you the chance to do just that. There will be cat-themed artworks by the likes of Yvonne Todd, Urzila Carlson, Tom Sainsbury up for grabs (100 per cent of proceeds go to Pet Refuge), food and drinks, and even music courtesy of DJ Fur Balls. If you can't be there on the day, check out the "cat-alogue" and make an absentee bid. Sunday August 28, 1pm. Everybody's, 7 Fort Lane or 44 Queen St.
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Advertise with NZME.See a few short films
In upcoming exhibition Legacies, artists Edith Amituanai, Martin Sagadin, Ukrit Sa-nguanhai, Pati Solomona-Tyrell and Sriwhana Spong imagine what a legacy might taste, smell, feel or sound like across five short films. Curated by Circuit curator-at-large Dr May Adadol Ingawanij, the works "proffer a portrait of a young Pasifika matriarch; a reflection on cinema as resistance in cold war Thailand; a painter's studio and the trans-national practice of the artists themselves who work and live between Aotearoa, Bali, Thailand, UK and the wider South Pacific." Open from September 2-October 29 at Artspace Aotearoa, 292 Karangahape Rd, Auckland.
Support the Cancer Society
Friday August 26 is Daffodil Day, a time to show your support for cancer awareness and fundraise for the Cancer Society's work. The charity's collectors will be out on streets around Aotearoa like they have since the initiative began in 1990 so donate if you can, and don a daffodil.
Collect some craft
Talented local woodworker Courtney Petley is having a sample sale this weekend! It's good news for those who follow what she crafts from reclaimed native timber, appreciate hand-made items, or just love a good spoon. Saturday August 27, 8am-12pm. Kingsize Studios, 27 Sackville St, Auckland.
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Watch a fantasy
Head on underground to Academy Cinemas' opening night screening of George Miller's new fantasy, Three Thousand Years of Longing. Based on A. S. Byatt's 1994 novella The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, it follows Dr. Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) who encounters a djinn (Idris Elba) while attending a conference in Istanbul. It asks that familiar (but always with-strings-attached) genie-in-a-bottle question: what would you do if you were granted three wishes? Thursday September 1 at 6.15pm. Tickets are available at Academycinemas.co.nz
